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No fewer than Over 13,000 members of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) has defected to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, in Southern Kaduna.
The PDP treasurer in Kaduna North-West region, Hon. Rabiu Bakori, received the new members on behalf of the North-West Zonal PDP Chairman, Sen. Hayyatu Gwarzo, in Zonkwa, area of Kaduna.
Bakori noted that for the party to come out victorious in the 2023 general elections, all hand must be in deck by all actors in the state.
“The ruling party had on 2015 promised to enhance security, but have ended up enhancing fears in the minds of Nigerians. Kaduna residents must work hard to ensure that PDP wins at the polls in order to ensure justice, fairness and true democratic values,” He said.
On his part, the Kaduna State PDP Chairman, Hon. Felix Hassan Hyat, described the defection as symbolic and historical, adding that it would take the PDP to Sir Kashim Ibrahim House, in 2023.
He explained that the only PDP stronghold in the entire North-west Zone was in Southern Kaduna.
According to him, “no other party, except the PDP has ever won an election in Southern Kaduna, and come 2023 no other party will win,” Hyat vowed.
He lamented that Southern Kaduna under the ruling party, had experienced infrastructural deficit and high level of insecurity, noting that the region only enjoyed federal appointments and infrastructural development during the PDP administration.
Also, the PDP National Youth Leader, Hon. Mohammed Kadede, said the new members realised that PDP was the party that Nigerians needed come 2023, to rescue them from the APC’s regime.
Kadede expressed confidence that the PDP will win the elections from the state level to the national level come 2023.